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Post by stormrage on Nov 29, 2011 3:40:57 GMT -5
So I gotta say upfront I like this title well enough. It's a far sight better than Yost and Kyle's run. It's not quite up there with Remender's run, but that guy is pretty good. But Brent offers up a good yarn for sure.
What I enjoy the most about this title are the character interactions. They all bounce off of every each other very well and bring out different facets of their personalities throug their interactions. Honestly, the intial roster of this team and its current roster aren't on paper the kind of teams I'd see suceeding. But I think the cool thing is that these little common threads are found and Brent plays upon them naturally. Like Marrow feeling some rapport with Abyss because of their looks makes perfect sense. Cece and M being at each other's throats it something I would immeadiately think of, but it makes sense too. So in the end the roster is able to avoid looking like a bunch of characters cobbled together with no purpose.
I think my least favorite of the roster members are Pipeline. He should have been the one to get axed in the Weapon X crossover because he seems really useless on the whole. I can't think of any one remarkable thing he's done while being part of the team. I can see a bit where his character is going, but I think the mark was missed by not having explored this sooner. I would much rather have Abyss around over this guy. Bleh!
The pacing of the story is pretty decent in the title. The arcs are seperated by smaller, one-issue stories which is pretty good for slowing things down a bit. I also like that things are neatly resolved in this series. So many comics and alot of fanfic I read have their characters go from problem A to problem B etc. and so forth. X-Force (and almost all of Brent's writing it seems) takes a bit more of a real life approach to problems which is usually problems A, B, C, and D hitting you all at once. I can see a convergence of alot of threads in this title and I think it's going to make for a pretty big story. My only concern is if the proper scale for such a story will be able to be pulled off as it will require alot of work.
I have a slight worry with this title and it's that the antagonists might overshadow the protagonists in terms of importance. It's kind of a curse and a blessing I suppose that I enjoy the bad guys in this book so much. I want to read more about them at times than I do the protagonists. And that could be a potential problem with the series. On a sidenote, man there had better be more Weapon X action in the future! The squad that X-Force had to face came off as one of the nastier squads in the crossover.
Overall, I enjoy the title and I'd give it a strong, solid B.
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Post by brentlambert on Nov 30, 2011 9:27:51 GMT -5
Thanks for the thoughts man. Much appreciated. They were very helpful because you pointed out some things I've been struggling with internally about the title. Particularly when it came to Pipeline. I've been trying to find a way to make him more interesting and someone that people care about. There's alot to mine about him and for reasons you'll see over the coming year, Abyss' death was just a more impactful one than his would have been.
I'm glad the character interactions work for you. As anyone who's known me a while can tell you, I go for the obscure and the under used characters when I write. Primarily because I can do what I want with them without having too many people fuss about it. And secondly, it's fun to try and make someone who's written off as a "loser" per se into a character people care about reading.
And you've hit how I plan on approaching X-Force's plot right on the head. I don't necessarily hate titles where things always wrap up neatly, but it doesn't feel natural to me. Life doesn't work that way. You're often trying to figure out how to pay a dozen bills at one time, not just one lol. So that's how I'm going to be tackling the many problems that X-Force seems to be handling.
Again, thank you so much for the thoughts on my and the other titles. I encourage everyone reading this to follow your example and start posting on this board. Even if it's just a sentence. Don't come on here and just read. Be active. It'll make the writers happy and the site better in the long run.
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Post by stormrage on Dec 2, 2011 9:54:17 GMT -5
Thanks for the thoughts man. Much appreciated. They were very helpful because you pointed out some things I've been struggling with internally about the title. Particularly when it came to Pipeline. I've been trying to find a way to make him more interesting and someone that people care about. There's alot to mine about him and for reasons you'll see over the coming year, Abyss' death was just a more impactful one than his would have been. I'm glad the character interactions work for you. As anyone who's known me a while can tell you, I go for the obscure and the under used characters when I write. Primarily because I can do what I want with them without having too many people fuss about it. And secondly, it's fun to try and make someone who's written off as a "loser" per se into a character people care about reading. And you've hit how I plan on approaching X-Force's plot right on the head. I don't necessarily hate titles where things always wrap up neatly, but it doesn't feel natural to me. Life doesn't work that way. You're often trying to figure out how to pay a dozen bills at one time, not just one lol. So that's how I'm going to be tackling the many problems that X-Force seems to be handling. Again, thank you so much for the thoughts on my and the other titles. I encourage everyone reading this to follow your example and start posting on this board. Even if it's just a sentence. Don't come on here and just read. Be active. It'll make the writers happy and the site better in the long run. Yep, if I was having to sell this title to someone I would use the character interactions and the strength of the antagonists as the two main selling points. But I also enjoy the fact you use the underused folks. I read fanfic to get the stories I probably would never get in the mainstream. A book with a roster that's awfully close to a mainstream one isn't necessarily going to catch my attention. One great thing about MA's X-Titles are that they don't strike me as anything I'd get at regular Marvel. Even the rosters that need some tweaking are still unique and that's cool. |
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Post by brentlambert on Dec 18, 2011 13:30:51 GMT -5
Thanks for the thoughts man. Much appreciated. They were very helpful because you pointed out some things I've been struggling with internally about the title. Particularly when it came to Pipeline. I've been trying to find a way to make him more interesting and someone that people care about. There's alot to mine about him and for reasons you'll see over the coming year, Abyss' death was just a more impactful one than his would have been. I'm glad the character interactions work for you. As anyone who's known me a while can tell you, I go for the obscure and the under used characters when I write. Primarily because I can do what I want with them without having too many people fuss about it. And secondly, it's fun to try and make someone who's written off as a "loser" per se into a character people care about reading. And you've hit how I plan on approaching X-Force's plot right on the head. I don't necessarily hate titles where things always wrap up neatly, but it doesn't feel natural to me. Life doesn't work that way. You're often trying to figure out how to pay a dozen bills at one time, not just one lol. So that's how I'm going to be tackling the many problems that X-Force seems to be handling. Again, thank you so much for the thoughts on my and the other titles. I encourage everyone reading this to follow your example and start posting on this board. Even if it's just a sentence. Don't come on here and just read. Be active. It'll make the writers happy and the site better in the long run. Yep, if I was having to sell this title to someone I would use the character interactions and the strength of the antagonists as the two main selling points. But I also enjoy the fact you use the underused folks. I read fanfic to get the stories I probably would never get in the mainstream. A book with a roster that's awfully close to a mainstream one isn't necessarily going to catch my attention. One great thing about MA's X-Titles are that they don't strike me as anything I'd get at regular Marvel. Even the rosters that need some tweaking are still unique and that's cool. Yea definately. I try to avoid the characters that are getting alot of screentime at Marvel wherever I can. Some I just can't avoid because they're important to the tapestry of the site, but most I pick up on because I see some potential in them I can tap. Blind Faith seems to be a character that alot of folks have become attached to. |
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Post by stormrage on Jan 9, 2012 14:41:46 GMT -5
Yep, if I was having to sell this title to someone I would use the character interactions and the strength of the antagonists as the two main selling points. But I also enjoy the fact you use the underused folks. I read fanfic to get the stories I probably would never get in the mainstream. A book with a roster that's awfully close to a mainstream one isn't necessarily going to catch my attention. One great thing about MA's X-Titles are that they don't strike me as anything I'd get at regular Marvel. Even the rosters that need some tweaking are still unique and that's cool. Yea definately. I try to avoid the characters that are getting alot of screentime at Marvel wherever I can. Some I just can't avoid because they're important to the tapestry of the site, but most I pick up on because I see some potential in them I can tap. Blind Faith seems to be a character that alot of folks have become attached to. Yea so with Blind Faith do you have any plans to deal with his religious status? I know he's a Russian Catholic and he's a priest to boot. There's gotta be some character development to mine in there. |
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Post by brentlambert on Jan 10, 2012 17:19:39 GMT -5
Yea definately. I try to avoid the characters that are getting alot of screentime at Marvel wherever I can. Some I just can't avoid because they're important to the tapestry of the site, but most I pick up on because I see some potential in them I can tap. Blind Faith seems to be a character that alot of folks have become attached to. Yea so with Blind Faith do you have any plans to deal with his religious status? I know he's a Russian Catholic and he's a priest to boot. There's gotta be some character development to mine in there. I'm not going to be beating the reader over the head with it, but the issue will present itself from time to time. |
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Post by stormrage on Feb 14, 2012 23:30:16 GMT -5
Yea so with Blind Faith do you have any plans to deal with his religious status? I know he's a Russian Catholic and he's a priest to boot. There's gotta be some character development to mine in there. I'm not going to be beating the reader over the head with it, but the issue will present itself from time to time. Cool stuff. So I saw in your dibs you have Vulcan dibbed. What are you plans with him? |
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Post by brentlambert on Feb 21, 2012 14:22:01 GMT -5
I'm not going to be beating the reader over the head with it, but the issue will present itself from time to time. Cool stuff. So I saw in your dibs you have Vulcan dibbed. What are you plans with him? Well I can tell you a lil of how i'm playing him. He's a former Egyptian intelligence agent who's in hiding after the fall of Mubarak and he's picked up by Havok and Blind Faith to join the team. He's got a bit of a dark streak to him because I didn't want to stray too much from the canon version of him. |
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